[Fedora-trans-ar] Glossary - network interface

[Mohammad Ghoniem]

Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 15:27, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:
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>>Network device can be different than network card.
>>كارت الشبكة is used mainly for ethernet cards.
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>Which is the problem. If I understand correctly, the original question
>was about interface, which can be anything. For example, the loopback
>network interface does not correspond to any physical device.
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Exactly, a network interface is rather a software entity whereas a card 
is more of a physical device, although physical devices usually have a 
software mapping under linux. So... Do we have an accurate translation 
for "network interface" ? and for "network device" ?

Salâm

Mohammad